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The most popular forums on BlackPlanet were Current Events, Heritage & Identity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, and Women. [4] According to Wasow, BlackPlanet's home-grown software encouraged social connection rather than passive content consumption, allowing users to move between personal pages and a variety of message boards.
Political science, race and ethnic politics. Spouse. Jennifer Brea. . (m. 2012) . Website. www.omarwasow.com. Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970) [1] is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley ’s Department of Political Science. He is co-founder of the social networking website BlackPlanet.
History. Originally named AsianAvenue (or Asian Avenue), the site was launched on July 21, 1997 [1] by co-founders Benjamin Sun, Peter Chen, Grace Chang, Michael Montero, and Calvin Wong. By 1998, The New York Times described it as "unusually successful" despite being "run out of an apartment", having hit five million page views from 50,000 users.
Ethecon Foundation is a German environmental organisation, which describes itself as a "foundation for ethics and economy". [1] Founded in 2004, Ethecon started presenting annual awards, the Blue Planet Award which is given for actions deemed to be protecting the environment, and conversely the Black Planet Award given to those deemed to be destroying it, in 2006.
Filmmaker and activist. Jennifer Brea is an American documentary filmmaker and activist. Her debut feature, Unrest, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and received the US Documentary Special Jury Award For Editing. [1][2] Brea also co-created a virtual reality film which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. [3]
A blanet is a member of a hypothetical class of exoplanets that directly orbit black holes. [1] Blanets are fundamentally similar to other planets; they have enough mass to be rounded by their own gravity, but are not massive enough to start thermonuclear fusion and become stars. In 2019, a team of astronomers and exoplanetologists showed that ...
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...
Hip hop. Length. 5:27. Label. Def Jam Columbia Records. Songwriter (s) Chuck D, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee. " Welcome to the Terrordome " is a song by the American hip hop band Public Enemy, recorded for their 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet. It was released as a single in January 1990, according to the discographer Martin C. Strong.